On Fri, 22 May 2015 17:07:35 -0300 Fernando Seiti Furusato <ferse...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 05/22/2015 04:41 PM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2015 13:22:10 -0300 > > Fernando Seiti Furusato <ferse...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I work with package porting to ppc64le and I am currently working on > >> pixman. > >> Although the package compiles on the aforementioned architecture, the tests > >> fail. > > > > Hello. Thanks for contacting us. This issue looks very much like > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87001 > Indeed, much probably the same I get here. > > > > > At that time it was not very clear whether such hardware really existed > > in the hands of the end users. And the reporter did not seem to be very > > much interested in resolving it. > > > Yes, I think it was more of a rush to get it to build on ppc64le (Breno and I > were still working on making Debian support ppc64le officially). > > >> What should be the best way to send that patch? > > > > This is explained in the 'Contributing' and 'Sending patches' > > sections of > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman/plain/README > > > All right, I will take a look. > > > It may take a bit of time to get familiar with this if you have no > > prior experience with git. But on a positive side, many other open > > source projects handle patches in the same way, so it's a generally > > useful knowledge. > > > I couldn't agree more. Will try to make it right at first try :) > > >> I appreciate any help on this. > > > > Also before you send the patch, please pay special attention to making > > sure that the Altivec code still works correctly (passes the 'make > > check' test) with all the PPC flavours (big and little endian, 32-bit > > and 64-bit mode). And please mention this in the commit message. > Roger that. OK, looks like everything is going to be alright. BTW, I have just confirmed the ppc64le problems using QEMU and my old MIPS guide from https://github.com/ssvb/QEMU/wiki/MIPS It's good that nowadays QEMU appears to support ppc64le out of the box. This means that at least some testing can be done even without having the hardware. -- Best regards, Siarhei Siamashka _______________________________________________ Pixman mailing list Pixman@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pixman